Hi All,
Thanks for the suggestions.  It turns out I had gotten an old version
of ikarus from http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~aghuloum/ikarus.dev.
Checking out the latest version from
http://ikarus-scheme.org/ikarus.dev fixed the problem.  Thanks again.
Irvin

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Andreas Rottmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> Irvin <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm new to ikarus and having trouble importing the srfi library.  I
>> checked out the library into a directory in my IKARUS_LIBRARY_PATH
>> using
>>
>> sudo bzr checkout --lightweight
>> https://code.launchpad.net/~scheme-libraries-team/scheme-libraries/srfi
>>
>> but when I start ikarus and type (import (srfi lists)) I get the error
>>
>>  Unhandled exception
>>  Condition components:
>>    1. &error
>>    2. &who: expander
>>    3. &message: "cannot locate library in library-path"
>>    4. &library-resolution:
>>        library: (srfi lists)
>>        files: ("./srfi/lists/main.ikarus.sls" "./  .....directories
>> searched for here
>>
> This should be `(srfi :1 lists)', or `(srfi :1)'. If you still can't
> import using the correct library name, could you provide the exact value
> of IKARUS_LIBRARY_PATH, the directory you checked out the SRFI libraries
> into, and the *complete* error message?
>
>> I've also tried putting the srfi directory into /usr/local/lib/ikarus.
>>  It seems the problem is the files in the srfi directory are different
>> than what ikarus is looking for.  Is there something I need to do
>> inside srfi like compiling the files?  I tried ikarus
>> --compile-dependencies compile-all.ikarus.sps, but I got the error
>>
>> Unhandled exception:
>>  Condition components:
>>    1. &who: cons*
>>    2. &message: "multiple definitions of identifier"
>>    3. &syntax:
>>        form: cons*
>>        subform: #f
>>    4. &trace: #<syntax cons*>
>>
> Are you using the latest Ikarus from bzr? I seem to remember that this
> happened to me with a not-totally-up-to-date Ikarus.
>
> Regards, Rotty
> --
> Andreas Rottmann -- <http://rotty.yi.org/>
>

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